June 20 | Broads Read Book Club Meeting—Zoom (Greater Wasatch Broadband, UT) Date: June 20, 2024 Time: 6:30 PM (MT) Location: Via Zoom Contact Greater Wasatch Broadband Co-Leader Barbara McConvill for more information at Broadbandemail@gmail.com. Register Today! Join the Greater Wasatch Broads via Zoom on Thursday, June 20 at 6:30 PM (MT) as they discuss Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny. It’s a good book for spring reading as the rivers swell and we start launching our favorite floating toys!  ..read more

Biden Administration Releases New NEPA Rules DURANGO, CO (May 2, 2024)—The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has issued its final rule implementing new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. This new rule will undo harmful changes made to the law during the Trump Administration, which had undermined the environmental analysis process and limited public participation. Now federal agencies are required to consider environmental justice and climate change in the NEPA analysis process. Great Old Broads for Wilderness has long advocated to restore the damage done to NEPA ..read more

Biden Administration Announces Expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain, San Gabriel Mountains National Monuments DURANGO, CO (May 2, 2024)—Great Old Broads for Wilderness would like to thank the Biden administration for today demonstrating its commitment to conservation by expanding Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument and San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. The 13,696-acre expansion of Northern California’s Berryessa Snow Mountain to include Molok Luyuk ensures the protection of a vital ecosystem important to numerous threatened species of plants and wildlife, as well as the pro ..read more

July 18–21 | Winn Two Campout (Apache Co., AZ) Date: July 18–21, 2024 Location: Winn Campground, Apache Count, AZ Join the Yavapai Prescott Broadband for a fun campout at the Winn Campground, Apache County, AZ. We’ll have hiking, workshops, field trips, tracking, great food, and incredible camaraderie! Where: Winn Campground, Apache County, GreerSituated near Mt. Baldy trailheads and the East and the West forks of the Little Colorado River. The campground borders largeelk are often seen at twilight. Mexican Gray Wolves den nearby. There is fishing close and a general store at Big ..read more

May 11 – Jaguar Rising 2024 (Nogales, AZ) Date: May 11, 2024 Time: 5:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Wittner Museum 204 N. Morley Ave. Nogales, AZ Join the Tucson Broadband on May 11, 5-9 pm to attend the Jaguar Rising Kickoff in Nogales, AZ with our friend and supporter Kate Scott of the Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center. We are one of the many sponsors of this event! This is an art-driven campaign seeking to raise awareness of endangered species and the impact of the Border Wall.  https://jaguar-rising.org ..read more

May 14 – Climate Change – Strategies to Protect & Defend Public Lands & Wildlife (Bend, OR) Date: May 14, 2024 Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Environmental Center 16 NW Kansas Ave. Bend, OR Register Today!Attend Via Zoom Climate change is rapidly altering many of the special places, wildlife, and communities that we love. Fortunately, bedrock federal environmental laws passed a half-century ago can help us address these changes by advocating for more protective land and wildlife management. Join the Central & Eastern Oregon Bitterbrush Broadband for a presentation from ..read more

May 2 | Webinar and Comment-Writing Workshop: Greater Sage-Grouse Management Plan Date: May 2, 2024 Time: 4:00 PM (Mountain) Register Today! In March, the BLM released its long-awaited draft Greater Sage-Grouse Resource Management Plan Amendment. The plan intends to protect the greater-sage grouse by amending 77 land-use plans across 10 states. The BLM is now accepting public comments on the draft plan and on the BLM’s consideration of potential areas of critical environmental concern (ACECs), which are land designations that can be made in the resource management planning proce ..read more

Broads Applauds New BLM Public Lands Rule DURANGO (April 18, 2024)—Great Old Broads for Wilderness applauds the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for releasing its final “Public Lands Rule” to balance and uphold its multiple-use mission. This new framework promises to place conservation, access to nature, wildlife, cultural lands protection, and climate change mitigation on equal footing with industrial development across the West. For too long, the protection and preservation of our public lands have been treated as secondary (at best) to activities like oil and natural gas extraction a ..read more

May 1 | Day at the Oakland Zoo (Coast to Crest Broadband—CA) Date: May 1, 2024 Time: 11:00-2:00 PM Location: Oakland Zoo 9777 Golf Links Rd, Oakland, CA 94605 Register Today! Join Great Old Broads for Wilderness members and guests on May 1 from 11-2:00 PM at the Oakland Zoo! We will be participating in a docent led tour of the California Trails. We will learn about California threatened and endangered species and discuss migratory corridors and habitat connectivity. Please complete this Google Form so we know you are coming and share this event with your friends and family. Buy ..read more

June 24-27 | Discovering New Passages Regional Broadwalk (Polly Dyer Seattle (WA) Broadband) Date: June 24-27, 2024 Location: Deception Pass State Park (WA) Register Today! Join the Polly Dyer Seattle Broadband in “Discovering New Passages,”  a Broadwalk at Deception Pass State Park, June 24-27, 2023!  By land or sea, this sprawling park has passages – 38 miles of trails and more than 100,000 feet of shoreline, both saltwater and freshwater. It has old growth and mature forests, rugged ocean cliffs, and gullies of ferns. The park spans two large islands, Whidbey and Fi ..read more